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Welcome  

For 16 years, I worked for a very large international support company, mostly as a system administrator. For those 16 years, I found that the fine art of negligence was not only prevalent, but an actual and conscious career choice for some of my colleagues.

It's a Snap!  

Canonical's Snapcraft (Snappy) package manager creates a self-contained application that works across Linux distributions. We show you how to install, publish, and run a simple snap.

The Pure Doctrine  

Internet providers often market their open interfaces as RESTful, but is this true of the APIs, especially when no standard exists? We introduce some REST providers and look at how closely their API architectures reflect the REST principle.

Bad Actor  

Three IAM security misconfiguration scenarios are rather common: allowing the creation of a new policy version, the modification of a role trust policy, and the creation of EC2 instances with role passing. We look at ways to avoid and detect IAM security holes.

Footloose  

Keep your test-driven development and testing environments pristine with Footloose containers that look like VMs.

NumberPlease  

Maximize telephony uptime by clustering Asterisk or FreeSWITCH PBXs together.

Tried and Trusted  

Automation in the cloud does not require expensive new acquisitions when tools such as Ansible, Salt, Puppet, or Chef are already in use locally and can contribute to the automatic management and orchestration of cloud workloads.

At the Controls  

YAML is often the language of choice when configuring complex environments. We help you get started with YAML and the YAML parser yq.
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